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“Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.”
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“We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.”
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“You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!”
Source : "Fictional character: Murray Chadwick". "Youngblood", www.imdb.com. January 31, 1986.
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“We don't need no thought control.”
Source : "Another Brick in theWall (Part 2)" (song) (1979)
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“Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.”
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“I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.”
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“Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.”
Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
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“People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.”